Sachin Kundalkar is shooting his new Marathi film on a Smartphone
National award winning film maker Sachin Kundalkar who made Marathi films like ‘Nirop‘, ‘Gandha‘, ‘Happy Journey‘, ‘Rajwade & Sons‘, & ‘Vazandaar‘ is presently shooting his next Marathi film ‘Pondicherry‘ in Pondicherry itself. Attempting something different every time, this time he is making a travel vacation film and therefore he has selected a picturesque place like Pondicherry with the same title. But, the highlight of this film is that this film is being shot by him on a smartphone.
Having seen Marathi films on the backdrop of cities like Mumbai, Pune, Konkan or Goa, this time the Marathi film lovers will witness a different location outside Maharashtra and that too at a place, which is known for its picturesque locations. Not much was known about the film’s cast and story, except that he along with writer Tejas Modak were doing a film on the backdrop of Pondicherry. But, recently, Sachin Kundalkar shared a photo clearly indicating that Sai Tamhankar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi and Neena Kulkarni formed his team of lead artistes. And, this is very interesting!
Popularity of Riteish Deshmukh noticed during promotion of ‘Mauli’
We are all aware that every lead artiste has to offer time for the promotion of his or her forthcoming film. Recently, actor Riteish Deshmukh was on extensive tour of Maharashtra including places like Jejuri and Pandharpur. As a result of this Riteish has moves 10 points ahead i.e. from 19 to 9 in the popularity list of Score trends India.
According to Ashwini Kaul Co-founder of Score Trends, Riteish‘s involvement in promotion of his Marathi film and the response he is receiving clearly indicates that there is a big fan following for Riteish among Marathi film lovers. Explaining how the popularity of an actor is judged, Ashwini says that they collect data from 14 Indian languages and more than 600 types of news. And this also includes Facebook, Twitter, Print media, Publications, Social media viral news, Broadcast and Digital platforms.
Now, it remains to be seen whether this popularity will help the film to attain success at the box office.
१७ व्या थर्ड आय आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सवाचे आयोजन
१७ वा थर्ड आय आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सव हा भारतातील एकमेव आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सव आहे. शुक्रवार दिनांक १४ डिसेंबर ला सिटीलाईट सिनेमा मुंबई येथे अनेक मान्यवरांच्या उपस्थिती मध्ये १७ व्या थर्ड आय आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सवाचे भव्य उदघाटन झाले. या उदघाटनाला प्रमुख पाहुण्या म्हणून मराठी चित्रपट अभिनेत्री आणि दिग्दर्शिका मृणाल कुलकर्णी, आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सवाचे अध्यक्ष श्री. किरण शांताराम, आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सवाचे डायरेक्टर श्री.सुधीर नांदगावकर, प्रभात चे सचिव श्री संतोष पाठारे , दिग्दर्शक सुनील सुखथनकर आणि फेडरेशन ऑफ फिल्म सोसायटी इंडियाचे उपाध्यक्ष श्री. प्रेमेंद्र मुझुमदार ही मंडळी उपस्थित होती. ‘वेलकम होम‘ या मराठी चित्रपटाने महोत्सवाचे उद्घाटन झाले. डॉ. सुमित्रा भावे आणि सुनील सुखथनकर या चित्रपटाचे दिग्दर्शक असून त्यात मृणाल कुलकर्णी, सुमित राघवन, सुबोध भावे यांच्या प्रमुख भूमिका आहेत.
राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार विजेता सिनेमा ‘कासव‘ आणि ‘वेलकम होम‘ चित्रपटाचे दिग्दर्शक सुनील सुखथनकर यांनी सांगितले की, ” २००४ मध्ये आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सवात दाखवलेल्या ‘देवराई‘ चित्रपटासाठी अतुल कुलकर्णी यांना मिळालेला अवॉर्ड हा आमच्यासाठी आजही खास आहे . एक दिग्दर्शक म्हणून मला दडपण आले आहे आणि आशा करतो तुम्हा चित्रपट प्रेमींना आमचा चित्रपट आवडेल . ”
१७ व्या थर्ड आय आशियाई चित्रपट महोत्सवात मुंबईकर येथे प्रेक्षकांना आंतरराष्ट्रीय चित्रपट महोत्सवात दाद मिळालेले चित्रपट व लघुपटांचा आस्वाद घेता येणार आहे. अर्जुन दत्ता या बंगाली दिग्दर्शकाचा ‘अव्यकतो‘ हा चित्रपट व शेखर बापू रानखांबेचा ‘पॅम्पलेट‘ हा तीस मिनिटांचा लघुपट आशियाई महोत्सवात प्रदर्शित होणार आहेत.
मोबाईलच्या आसक्ती मुळे संपर्क तुटलेल्या नायक (नंदू माधव) आपल्याला ‘द ड्रेनेज‘ मध्ये आपल्याला पाहता येईल. ‘परसेप्टिव्ह‘ मधून आदिनाथ कोठारे ने धार्मिक सोहळ्यांकडे पाहण्याचा आगळा वेगळा दृष्टिकोन चित्रित केला आहे.
Poster of new Marathi film ‘Perfume’ launched
New subjects and unique titles for the films have set a new trend in Marathi cinema during the past few years. Now, one such Marathi film ‘Perfume’ is all set to spread the fragrance of love all over Maharashtra from 1st March 2019.
Recently, poster of this film was launched at Pune’s Dagdusheth Halwai Mandir in presence of all the artistes of this film. The film is presented by Amol Kagne Films, which had earlier produced an award winning film like ‘Halaal’ and also presented another sensible film ‘Lathe Joshi’ in the near past.
‘Perfume’ is produced by Dr. Hemant Dixit and Omkar Dixit . the poster of this film clearly indicates that it will be a suspense thriller combined with a love story. With direction and cinematography by Karan Tandale, the film stars Omkar and Monalisa Bagal along with Chinmay Mandlekar, Sayaji Shinde, Abhijeet Chavan, Kamalesh SawantHina Panchal , Anil nagarkar, Shilpa Thakre, Bhagyashree Nhalve and others.
Ranveer’s supercool gesture towards Amruta Khanvilkar
There are many actresses from Marathi film industry, who are huge fans of popular Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh. And one of them is Amruta Khanvilkar. Even otherwise, Amruta has her Bollywood connection, having performed prominent roles in some of the Bollywood films. So, it is but natural that Ranveer too is aware of Amruta’s acting talent.
However, not many are aware that Ranveer is known for surprising his friends and well wishers in different ways. So, he thought of giving surprise to Amruta too. Since both of them are busy with their respective commitments for shooting, one day Ranveer found time for Amruta. It so happened that Ranveer had come for the promotion of his forthcoming film ‘Simba‘ and at the same place on the other sets Amruta was in the shooting of reality show ‘Super Dancer Maharashtra‘. The surprise visit of Ranveer Singh to meet Amruta turned out to be a humble gesture and it also gave all the participants in her show new energy and enthusiasm.
‘MPM-3′ earns 5 Crores in 3 days
It seems that Marathi film industry is witnessing ‘Achhe Din‘ at present. Though the year 2018 is coming to an end, the past month saw good progress made by Marathi films at the ticket windows of the cinema halls. Best example was that of ‘Aani kashinath Ghanekar‘ which witnessed houseful shows during the first week, thus posing a good competition for Hindi films released during that period. Later, we also saw success achieved by ‘Mulshi Pattern‘. And now, there is news that ‘Mumbai Pune Mumbai -3‘(MPM-3) has earned 5 Crores in just first three days.
One thing is sure that if there are popular stars in the film which is supported by good story presentation, the film is sure to become a hit. Extremely happy with the overwhelming response from the audience to his film, director Satish Rajwade has thanked the Marathi film viewers. “Our films are considered to be better than Hindi films, when people look for better script. Now, it’s high time that all the Marathi film makers should unite together and see to it that next year the release dates of their films don’t clash with each other.”
“प्रेमवारी” चित्रपटाचे पोस्टर लाँच
‘प्रेम‘ या शब्दाचा प्रत्येक जण आपल्या सोयीने अर्थ काढत असतो. प्रेमाची व्याख्या, प्रेमाची रूपे देखील सर्वासाठी वेगळी असतात. काहीशा ह्याच संकल्पनेवर आधारित ‘प्रेमवारी‘ हा चित्रपट लवकरच प्रेक्षकांच्या भेटीस येत आहे. नुकतेच या चित्रपटाच्या पोस्टरचे शिर्डी येथे साईबाबाच्या चरणी अनावरण करण्यात आले. हे पोस्टर पाहून हा नक्कीच एक रोमँटिक सिनेमा वाटत आहे. या पोस्टर वर सिनेमातील मुख्य कलाकार चिन्मय उदगीरकर आणि मयुरी कापडणे दिसत आहे. व्हॅलेंटाइन डे च्या आठवड्यात म्हणजेच ८ फेब्रुवारी ला हा सिनेमा रिलीज होणार आहे. रोमँटिक सिनेमा आणि व्हॅलेंटाइन डे चा आठवडा हा एक चांगला योगायोग जुळून आला आहे. या चित्रपटातून मयुरीच्या रूपाने मराठी सिनेसृष्टीत एक नवीन चेहरा येत आहे. साईममित प्रोडक्शन निर्मित ‘प्रेमवारी’ या आगामी सिनेमाद्वारे प्रेमाची नवी परिभाषा लोकांसमोर येणार आहे, या सिनेमाला मराठी चित्रपटसृष्टीतला प्रसिद्ध संगीतदिग्दर्शक अमितराज याने संगीत दिले.
या सुंदर चित्रपटाचे लेखन,निर्मिती आणि दिग्दर्शन राजेंद्र कचरू गायकवाड यांनी केले असून, प्रस्तुतकर्त्याची धुरादेखील त्यांनीच सांभाळली आहे.
New Marathi plays are offering quality entertainment
Unlike Marathi films, which need a very good script and music to satisfy the film lovers, our Marathi plays are well accepted by drama lovers not only in major cities of Maharashtra, but also at places like UK and USA. Many a times, we often find the tour dates announced by the Drama production house, to indicate that there will be no shows of the play during that period.
One such play ‘Eka Lagnachi Pudhchi Goshta‘ starring Prashant Damle and Kavid Medhekar and written-directed by Adwait Dadarkar has already announced that they have booking for 19 March 2019 in Manchester, UK. This play which was launched with inaugural show last month has celebrated silver jubilee show and is drawing houseful crowds. One thing is sure that if there are popular artistes and a good subject with nice presentation in a particular play, it receives an overwhelming response everywhere.
There are other plays like ‘Aamchya Hicha Prakaran‘ starring Nikhil Ratnaoparakhi, Bhargavi Chirmule, Nandita Patkar directed by Sachin Goswami and ‘Tila kahi Sangaychay‘ starring Tejashree Pradhan and Astad kale with the direction of Hemant Edalabadkar are also receiving good response from the Marathi drama lovers. There is one more comedy play ‘9 Koti 57 lakh‘ which is also inviting the attention of drama lovers. This play also stars popular artistes like Rajan Bhise, Sulekha Talwalkar, Anand Ingale and others. This play is directed by Vijay kenkre. In short, all these new Marathi plays are offering quality entertainment .
Marathi actor Rohit Kokate is also inviting attention in ‘Date with Saie’
So far, we had only heard about Sai Tamhankar playing title role in the Marathi web series ‘Date with Saie’ released on Zee 5. But, now there is a lot of talk about her co star Rohit Kokate, who according to Sai herself has given a wonderful performance. Recently, Sai appreciated her co star’s performance, stating that he has performed so well that anyone would be scared of the character he has played in this film.
It may be recalled that Rohit Kotake is not new to acting field. He was earlier seen in films like ‘Kaul-A calling’ released two years ago and ‘Bogda’ which was released this year. Now, in this web series, his performance is not only appreciated by Sai and other artistes but also the viewers, who are watching him. The theme of this series shows how dangerous could be a particular fan’s love and admiration for his favourite artiste. And Rohit is playing that dangerous fan in this film.
Vaidehi Parshurami is inviting all the attention
After the release of the film ‘Aani Kashinath Ghanekar‘ Marathi film lovers talked about the fine performance of Subodh Bhave. But, at the same time they appreciated one more artistes from this film and she is Vaidehi Parshurami. Vaidehi invited all the attention of the audience in all those scenes she was offered in this film. Her character of young kanchan in this film has certainly helped her to draw big fan following. If this was not enough, we now find her in a prominent role in the trailer of Rohit Shetty’s much talked about Bollywood film ‘Simba‘ which is all set to release by end of this month.
This is certainly a big achievement for the young charming talented actress. It may be recalled that Vaidehi made her debut in Marathi films through Mahesh Kothare’s film ‘Ved Lavi Jeeva‘ opposite Adinath Kothare and thereafter we saw her in films like ‘Kokanastha‘ and ‘Vrundavan‘. Not many are aware that Vaidehi has already made her debut in Bollywood and that too in Amitabh Bachchan starrer film ‘Wazir‘ playing an important character. And now, her fans are eager to watch her ‘Simba‘. Wishing her all the best.